Betancourt, Leah. "The Complete Guide to Video Blogging." Mashable: The Social Media Guide. Mashable. n.d. Web. 20 May 2010. http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/video-blogging/.
You have been inspired by this article to set up your video lab. Using it as a guide, find reviews for the items listed below Select the hard- and software for this lab . For each item selected give me the price, a brief product description, and a hyperlink to a review of the item. Use the reviewing tools from above to select the hard- and software. If you don't use a review tool from above you must defend the source you used. (Pretend I'm your principal and I want you to defend a purchase order request for expensive equipment and software.)
ALSO: Keep in mind you are a BUSY librarian. Kids will be using this equipment. DON'T buy the most expensive equipment but keep in mind that with this kind of circulation that if it is broken you may not be able to replace it easily. Look for durability. Look for quality bargains. Look for EASE. You will have little time to help students with complicated equipment or software. Just sayin'.
Finally, tell me where you would set up this small video production area in your library. If you need to create space or desks, tables, chairs, etc. and you have money left over from you $10,000, tell me what you would need and how it might be arranged.
Total cost for 16 headphones (2 per station): $239.60
Because our library is a relatively small space, flexibility is the key. This is one reason I chose laptops rather than desktops. Our video production area would be stored on a 10 laptop cart purchased from www.demco.com for $514.99. This cart would be specifically for video production, which would also make it accessible for teachers to check out. I chose to start with 8 stations due to our average class size being between 18-24 students. This allows for groups of 3 or 4 students. The media closet can be used as a quiet room to set up the laptop, camera, and microphone, if necessary. I would spend an additional $350 to purchase a photo/video lighting kit from www.demco.com which includes lights and a green screen. I purposefully kept my lab under budget to buy the other necessities such as power strips, SD cards for the cameras, AA batteries for the wireless mice, headphone splitters, etc. I would also probably buy a couple of extra sets of headphones and the smaller microphone to prepare for lost and damaged items.
Creating a Video Lab
Betancourt, Leah. "The Complete Guide to Video Blogging." Mashable: The Social Media Guide. Mashable. n.d. Web. 20 May 2010. http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/video-blogging/.You have been inspired by this article to set up your video lab. Using it as a guide, find reviews for the items listed below
Select the hard- and software for this lab . For each item selected give me the price, a brief product description, and a hyperlink to a review of the item. Use the reviewing tools from above to select the hard- and software. If you don't use a review tool from above you must defend the source you used. (Pretend I'm your principal and I want you to defend a purchase order request for expensive equipment and software.)
ALSO: Keep in mind you are a BUSY librarian. Kids will be using this equipment. DON'T buy the most expensive equipment but keep in mind that with this kind of circulation that if it is broken you may not be able to replace it easily. Look for durability. Look for quality bargains. Look for EASE. You will have little time to help students with complicated equipment or software. Just sayin'.
Finally, tell me where you would set up this small video production area in your library. If you need to create space or desks, tables, chairs, etc. and you have money left over from you $10,000, tell me what you would need and how it might be arranged.
1. Digital video cameras:
2. External microphones for the computers and the cameras
3. Computers (with monitors and mice) to edit the videos
4. Video editing software
5. Headphones to be used in the editing process
Because our library is a relatively small space, flexibility is the key. This is one reason I chose laptops rather than desktops. Our video production area would be stored on a 10 laptop cart purchased from www.demco.com for $514.99. This cart would be specifically for video production, which would also make it accessible for teachers to check out. I chose to start with 8 stations due to our average class size being between 18-24 students. This allows for groups of 3 or 4 students. The media closet can be used as a quiet room to set up the laptop, camera, and microphone, if necessary. I would spend an additional $350 to purchase a photo/video lighting kit from www.demco.com which includes lights and a green screen. I purposefully kept my lab under budget to buy the other necessities such as power strips, SD cards for the cameras, AA batteries for the wireless mice, headphone splitters, etc. I would also probably buy a couple of extra sets of headphones and the smaller microphone to prepare for lost and damaged items.
Total Cost of Video Lab: $8378.67